Beach City Gender Support Club {{Steven Universe}}

1: What's a transphobia?

T/W: mentions of people being transphobic/queerphobic or whatever

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Being raised by gay aliens and a chill dad, gender wasn't something Steven really worried about.

To the short teenager, people were people. Some were called Sally and she/her, some were called Dylan and he/him. The whole pronouns ordeal made him think that whatever you want to be called, whether it be a boy or girl or something different was just based on how you felt.

A perspective that he thought everyone had. Up until today.

He and Connie had been sitting up on the cliff, relaxing and watching the calm life of Beach City move beneath them. Talking about this and that as subjects came to mind.

"I'm starting to hate my school." Connie stated, flopping back onto the soft grass and gazing up at the almost cloudless blue sky.

"Oh!" Steven looked over with big brown eyes, eyebrows furrowed. He'd known that Connie disliked school due to it apparently being boring (although Steven thinks having so many people he could be friends with around him every day would be amazing). Yet she'd not once used such a negative word towards the education system. "Why?"

"There some people bullying this student in tenth grade and it's really sad. I don't know, the school refuses to do anything to help them." Connie spoke, blowing away some hair that had begun to itch her nose.

"Bullying! Why would they do that?" Steven lay beside Connie now, head resting on his forearms as he gazed at his best friend.

"This student came out as genderfluid an-" Connie began to say, but was almost immediately cut off as the foreign word hit Stevens's ears.

"What's that?"

"It's where someone is a girl one day, but feels like a boy another day, and some days feels like both or neither."

"Both or neither? Oh! Like me and Stevonie?" The half gem nodded knowingly as he filed away this information in the important part of his memories.

"Like you?" Connie's eyes shot open and stared at her best friend.

"Yeah?" Steven shrugged. He had no reason not to share the information, Connie was his best friend after all and it's not all that important anyway. "Like I'm a boy a lot of the time but sometimes I don't feel like a boy or a girl. It's the same when we fuse."

Connie blinked a couple of times before nodding. "Oh... sorry Steven I didn't know. Do you- ah, want me to not call you Steven or a he or...?"

A laugh escaped Steven's mouth at Connie's awkwardness and he simply rolled onto his back. "Nah."

The other smiled at him before continuing after seeing the boy look at her expectantly. "So yeah this person came out as genderfluid and their friends are nice but a lot of students are pushing them around and calling them bad names and stuff. The teachers are all pretending it doesn't happen. That's why i hate my school, everyone's queerphobic."

Now it was Steven's turn to stare and blink at the other.

"What?" Connie asked after feeling his stare.

"What's a cweephobic?"

"Queerphobic, steven." The girl corrected patiently. "It's where you hate people that are different. Like... you don't like that a boy can love a boy or that a girl can love a girl. They also don't like it when people have a gender that's not how they were born."

"That's stupid!" Steven sat up, trying to imagine why on earth someone would have a problem with something so dumb. "Girls can love girls! Pearl and Mystery are in love! And I'm happy not always being a boy!"

"I know steven." Connie draped an arm over the slowly fuming demiboy. "That's why I don't like my school."

Taking a few deep breaths and thinking deeply about the situation, Steven turning to Connie. "But it's only your school, yeah?"

She looked back at him, feeling almost bad to tell him. He was so empathetic and sensitive to others that she didn't was to upset him. "No Steven. Humans are dumb sometimes and a lot of people in the world are like that."

"Are the people ok? You know, the genderqueer people?" Steven asked, mind still pondering how to fix the situation.

"Sometimes." She answered, but once started she didn't catch herself rambling and ranting. "It's really stupid and awful. There's lots of kids and teens that get kicked out because their different. And the suicide rates of the queer community is so high I hate it."

Steven looked at his hands in his lap, his mind slowly forming an idea. "We should make a club."

Connie was silent for a moment. "...Steven I don't think starting a secret club will help this."

"N-no not that!" Steven jumped up, startling both Connie and a seagull that had taken rest a few feet away. "Like a proper club, like those art clubs you used to go to! We could have one to help people with different genders and stuff!"

Connie's eyes widened at the idea. "STEVEN! You're a genius!"

"Of course I am!" He laughed before beginning to drag the other towards the path to the Temple. "Come on! We have to make Posters!"